(v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
(v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
(v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
(v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
(v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
(v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.
(n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
(n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(4) Injection of 0.001 Goldblatt u. renin into the angiotensin-sensitive region causes the water-replete rat to drink.
(5) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
(6) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(7) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(8) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(9) The mining activity does not seem to have contaminated drinking water significantly.
(10) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(11) It is concluded that some H2-receptor antagonists (cimetidine and nizatidine, in particular) can inhibit gastric ethanol oxidation and thus increase blood alcohol levels after drinking.
(12) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(13) Effects on pre-LDA teens, adolescents targeted by LDA, initiation at LDA, and post-LDA drinking experience were assessed.
(14) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(15) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(16) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(17) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(18) It will be a slow process to ensure everything is in place, such as ensuring there is consistent fresh drinking water and a sewerage system, but they lived there very happily before.
(19) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(20) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
Tincture
Definition:
(n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
(n.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
(n.) The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
(n.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
(n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
(n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.
(v. t.) To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
(v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report on a patient who developed necrotizing contact dermatitis after a single topical application of tincture of benzoin and a pressure bandage following enucleation of an eye.
(2) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Herbal tinctures by Duchy Originals, the Prince of Wales’s company.
(4) The patient was a 17-year-old female Indian who had received some 3 to 8 cc of a 20 percent mixture of podophyllum resin in compound tincture of benzoin (approximately equal to 0.4 gm of podophylotoxin) as an application to her vulvar condylomata.
(5) Soaking the cannulae for 20 minutes in a 2% tincture of iodine solution also appears to be useful for decontamination purposes.
(6) The results showed that dressings containing tincture of benzoin adversely affected wound healing in children.
(7) The uptake capacity of granulocytes for L-DOPA varies with a clock-time and a season judging from fluorescent intensity and tincture of granulocytes.
(8) Corresponding reductions for Hibitane tinted tincture were 3.6903, 4.0984 and 4.1253 and for the aqueous formulation, 1.5003, 1.5721 and 1.8692.
(9) The tincture, evaporated to dryness, re-constituted in an equal volume of water and administered by stomach tube or intraperitoneal injection, antagonized the antinociceptive effect of morphine in two separate test (hot-plate and tail flick).
(10) Intraperitoneal injection of Panax ginseng C. A. Mey tincture, Polyscias filicifolia Bailey tincture, Panax ginseng tincture or Eleutherococcus Maxim extract to rats produced a rise in plasma corticosterone 1 hour after the treatment.
(11) Iodophors tested in this study demonstrated a distinct superiority to noncomplexed iodine solutions (tincture and aqueous iodine solutions) as wound and skin cleansers.
(12) The conduction bundle was stained, well enough to be identified, with iodine tincture, with Lugol's solution, and with iodine gas.
(13) For the tincture of iodine control, the time was 30 minutes.
(14) The present procedure is less time-consuming and requires about 45 and 90 min for the assay of ipeca tincture and powder, respectively.
(15) In the model 10(10) bacteria are given via oro-gastric tube following intravenous cimetidine and oral sodium bicarbonate and prior to intraperitoneal tincture of opium.
(16) The present study compared the effectiveness and tolerability of two topical ungual preparations: a 28% solution of tioconazole and a 2% tincture of miconazole.
(17) Based on the amount of these compounds in the tincture and their activities we conclude that bergapten is mainly responsible for the photomutagenicity of the tincture.
(18) 1-2 cm2 large swabs were dissolved in the tincture, and with the help of a Karaya plate and an occlusive dressing was administered to the skin in the antebrachii anterior region.
(19) A simplified method for the quantitative analysis of hyoscyamine hydrobromide or atropine in Belladonna Tincture USP is described.
(20) This study confirms earlier reports on the effectiveness of quassia tincture, which seems to be a useful alternative to clophenothane.